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    Neuraminidase-induced thrombocytopenia in mice: Effects on thrombopoiesis (1991)
    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 147 (1991), S. 7-16 
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    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: Previous studies to examine the effects of thrombocytopenia on thrombopoiesis have generally utilized immune-mediated platelet depletion. We have developed a nonimmune model to exclude the possibility that adverse immune-mediated effects have been misinterpreted as the physiological response to stimulation of thrombopoiesis. Thrombopoiesis was examined in mice after induction of thrombocytopenia with a single injection of the nonimmunologic agent neuraminidase (Ndase). Utilizing electron microscopy, we examined platelets and megakaryocytes (MK) obtained 8, 12, 24, 48, 72, 96, and 120 hr after administration of Ndase. Eight to 48 hr after induction of acute, severe throm-bocytopenia (mean platelet count 〈 50,000/μl), the medians of the platelet sectional area distributions, as measured morphometrically, were significantly greater than the median platelet sectional area of pooled controls. The maximum median value for platelet sectional area was observed at 24 hr. The largest platelets in these samples contained more profiles of endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi cisternae, and a lower concentration of surface-connected canalicular system, as compared with normal platelets. By 72 hr post-injection of Ndase, virtually all platelets exhibited normal size and organelle complement. Mean platelet volumes, determined by electrical impedance analysis, paralleled the serial changes in platelet sectional areas. MK frequency and ploidy, measured by two-color fluorescence activated flow cytometry, were unchanged 12 and 24 hr following Ndase. At 48 hr, total MK frequency increased significantly (P 〉0.01) from 0.11% to 0.17%, and MK ploidy distribution shifted with a reduction in 16N MK (P 〉0.005) and an increase in 32N MK (P 〉0.01). MK ploidy was maximally altered from normal at 72 hr with increased 32N MK frequency (32.0%, P 〈0.001) and increased 64N MK frequency (2.4%, P 〉0.005). Morphologic and morphometric examination of MK at all time points did not reveal detectable changes from normal in cytoplasmic appearance or size, respectively. Therefore, we have demonstrated marked alterations of morphology and size of platelets, and of MK ploidy, using this nonimmunologic model. These studies further support our previous observations that megakaryocyte ploidy and platelet volume are independently regulated in response to depletion of the circulating platelet mass, and they show that these changes are not dependent upon the mechanism of thrombocytopenia.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jcp.1041470103
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    Elevated paraquat resistance can be used as a bioassay for longevity in a genetically based long-lived strain of Drosophila (1991)
    Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Developmental Genetics 12 (1991), S. 362-370 
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    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: Aging ; genetics of aging ; biomarkers ; free radicals ; catalase ; Drosophila ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: A long-lived (L) strain of Drosophila melanogaster, derived from a normal-lived (R) strain by artificial selection, has a significantly different adult longevity. Previous work has shown that (1) the two strains age in the same manner, (2) the major genes responsible for much of the L strain's extended longevity are located on the 3rd chromosome, and (3) the extended longevity phenotype is significantly modulated by the larval environment. In this report, we investigate the resistance of the L and R strains to the lethal effects of dietary paraquat. We show that, within the limitations of our described chromosomal and environmental manipulations, the extended longevity phenotype always accompanies the phenotype of elevated paraquat resistance. In addition, reversed selection applied to the L strain results in the simultaneous decrease of both life span and paraquat resistance. Thus, the presence or absence of the latter phenotype may be used as a bioassay for the presence or absence of the extended longevity phenotype, without any necessary implication of causality. Use of this bioassay should greatly speed up the genetic analysis of this system by allowing us to identify long-lived animals at a young age. Finally, we show that the age-related loss of elevated paraquat resistance in both strains precedes all the other age-related functional decrements which we have previously noted in this system.
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    URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/dvg.1020120505
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    Behavioral and neurobiological implications of sex-determining factors in Drosophila (1994)
    Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Developmental Genetics 15 (1994), S. 275-296 
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    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: Reproductive behavior ; courtship song ; Sex-specific internal anatomy ; doublesex mutants ; transformer mutants ; intersex mutant ; fruitless mutants ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: The function of the central nervous system as it controls sex-specific behaviors in Drosophila has been studied with renewed intensity, in the context of genetic factors that influence the development of sexually differentiated aspects of this insect. Three categories of genetic variations that cause anomalies in courtship and mating behaviors are discussed: (1) mutants isolated with regard to courtship defects, of which putatively courtship-specific variants such as the fruitless mutant are a subset; (2) general behavioral and neurological variants (including sensory and learning mutants), whose defects include subnormal reproductive performance; and (3) mutations of genes within the sex-determination regulatory hierarchy of Drosophila, the analysis of which has included studies of reproductive behavior. Recent studies of mutations in two of these categories have provided new insights into the control of neuronally based aspects of sex-specific behavior. The doublesex gene, the final factor acting in the sex-determination hierarchy, had been previously thought to regulate all aspects of sexual differentiation. Yet, it has been recently shown that doublesex does not control at least one neuronally-determined feature of sex-specific anatomy - a muscle in the male's abdomen, whose normal development is, however, dependent on the action of fruitless. These considerations prompted us to examine further (and in some cases re-examine) the influences exerted by sex-determination hierarchy genes on behavior. Our results - notably those obtained from assessments of doublesex mutations' effects on general reproductive actions and on a particular component of the courtship sequence (male “singing” behavior) - lead to the suggestion that there is a previously unrecognized branch within the sexdetermination hierarchy, which controls the differentiation of the male- and female- specific phenotypes of Drosophila. This new branch separates from the doublesex-related one immediately before the action of that gene (just after fransformer and transformer-2) and appears to control as least some aspects of neuronally determined sexual differentiation of males. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Tubulin mRNA instability and stabilization by protein synthesis inhibitors are reproducible in nontranslating extracts from Chlamydomonas (1993)
    Chichester [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Developmental Genetics 14 (1993), S. 460-470 
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    ISSN: 0192-253X
    Keywords: mRNA stability ; tubulin mRNA ; flagella ; Chlamydomonas ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Genetics
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology
    Notes: In Chlamydomonas rein-hardtii, flagellar amputation stimulates an induction in the synthesis of flagellar proteins which allows the cells to rapidly regenerate their flagella. The induction involves the coordinate accumulation and rapid degradation of a large number mRNAs, including those encoding the tubulins. The post-induction degradation of induced tubulin mRNAs has been shown to differ from the consti-tutive turnover pathway in two ways: (1) the rate of degradation is accelerated, and (2) degradation is prevented by inhibition of protein synthesis. In this report, it is shown that the post-induction degradation of all deflagellation-induced mRNAs examined is prevented by cycloheximide (CX), suggesting they all may be degraded via the same pathway. A cell-free decay system has been developed to investigate the degradation pathway. At least two characteristics of tubulir mRNA degradation are reproducible in these extracts: (1) endogenous α-tubulin mRNA is less stable than constitutive mRNAs in the same extract and (2) α-tubulin mRNA in extracts prepared from CX-treated cells (CX ex-tracts) is significantly more stable than it is in extracts from untreated cells (control extracts). This indicates that the mechanism by which CX blocks rapid degradation of tubulin mRNA in vivo is not simply by preventing its translation and suggests the involvement of an altered trans-factor. The difference in tubulin mRNA stability in the two extracts is maintained when the extracts are prepared under conditions that dissociate ribosomes from mRNPs, indicating intact polysome structure is not necessary. Tubulin mRNA-containing polysomes isolated from control and CX extracts are equally stable when assayed alone. However, the poly-somes from control extracts are more sensitive to exogenous RNAse treatment than are those from CX extracts, indicating a structural difference. There are no detectable differences in soluble factors that influence tubulin mRNA degradation rate between control and CX extracts; addition of excess soluble factors to either control or CX extracts does not alter the tubulin mRNA degradation in the extract, nor does a simple one-to-one combination of the two extracts result in stabilization or destabilization of the whole population of tubulin mRNAs in the mixture. The deflagellation-induced mRNAs, as a group, are shown to be particularly susceptible to a nuclease activity in extracts, inhibitable by vanadyl ribonucleoside complexes, which does not appear to attack constitutive mRNAs. It is proposed that a structural difference in the tubulin mRNPs produced in the presence and absence of CX underlies their differences in stabilities, and that a common nuclease targets the induced flagellar protein mRNAs. © 1993 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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    Gene expression during the life cycle of Drosophila melanogaster (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-09-28
    Description: Molecular genetic studies of Drosophila melanogaster have led to profound advances in understanding the regulation of development. Here we report gene expression patterns for nearly one-third of all Drosophila genes during a complete time course of development. Mutations that eliminate eye or germline tissue were used to further analyze tissue-specific gene expression programs. These studies define major characteristics of the transcriptional programs that underlie the life cycle, compare development in males and females, and show that large-scale gene expression data collected from whole animals can be used to identify genes expressed in particular tissues and organs or genes involved in specific biological and biochemical processes.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arbeitman, Michelle N -- Furlong, Eileen E M -- Imam, Farhad -- Johnson, Eric -- Null, Brian H -- Baker, Bruce S -- Krasnow, Mark A -- Scott, Matthew P -- Davis, Ronald W -- White, Kevin P -- Howard Hughes Medical Institute/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Sep 27;297(5590):2270-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Biological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12351791" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Algorithms ; Animals ; Cluster Analysis ; Drosophila Proteins/genetics/physiology ; Drosophila melanogaster/embryology/*genetics/*growth & development ; Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology ; Female ; *Gene Expression ; Gene Expression Profiling ; Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental ; *Genes, Insect ; Germ Cells/physiology ; Larva/genetics ; Life Cycle Stages/*genetics ; Male ; Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis ; Organ Specificity ; Pupa/genetics ; RNA, Messenger/genetics/metabolism ; Sex Characteristics ; Transcription, Genetic
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    Linkage of plasma Abeta42 to a quantitative locus on chromosome 10 in late-onset Alzheimer's disease pedigrees (2000)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2000-12-23
    Description: Plasma Abeta42 (amyloid beta42 peptide) is invariably elevated in early-onset familial Alzheimer's disease (AD), and it is also increased in the first-degree relatives of patients with typical late-onset AD (LOAD). To detect LOAD loci that increase Abeta42, we used plasma Abeta42 as a surrogate trait and performed linkage analysis on extended AD pedigrees identified through a LOAD patient with extremely high plasma Abeta. Here, we report linkage to chromosome 10 with a maximal lod score of 3.93 at 81 centimorgans close to D10S1225. Remarkably, linkage to the same region was obtained independently in a genome-wide screen of LOAD sibling pairs. These results provide strong evidence for a novel LOAD locus on chromosome 10 that acts to increase Abeta.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Ertekin-Taner, N -- Graff-Radford, N -- Younkin, L H -- Eckman, C -- Baker, M -- Adamson, J -- Ronald, J -- Blangero, J -- Hutton, M -- Younkin, S G -- AG06656/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- MH59490/MH/NIMH NIH HHS/ -- P50 AG16574/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Dec 22;290(5500):2303-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Mayo Clinic Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL 32224, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11125143" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Adult ; Age of Onset ; Aged ; Aged, 80 and over ; Alzheimer Disease/*blood/*genetics ; Amyloid beta-Peptides/*blood/genetics ; Chromosomes, Human, Pair 10/*genetics ; Female ; *Genetic Linkage ; Genetic Markers ; Genetic Predisposition to Disease ; Humans ; Lod Score ; Male ; Middle Aged ; Pedigree ; Peptide Fragments/*blood/genetics ; Phenotype ; *Quantitative Trait, Heritable
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    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Computer Science , Medicine , Natural Sciences in General , Physics
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    Scientific whaling: source of illegal products for market? (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-02-24
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Baker, C S -- Lento, G M -- Cipriano, F -- Dalebout, M L -- Palumbi, S R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Dec 1;290(5497):1695-6.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11186388" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; *Commerce ; *Conservation of Natural Resources ; Ecosystem ; International Cooperation ; Japan ; *Whales
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    The history of South American tropical precipitation for the past 25,000 years (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-02-07
    Description: Long sediment cores recovered from the deep portions of Lake Titicaca are used to reconstruct the precipitation history of tropical South America for the past 25,000 years. Lake Titicaca was a deep, fresh, and continuously overflowing lake during the last glacial stage, from before 25,000 to 15,000 calibrated years before the present (cal yr B.P.), signifying that during the last glacial maximum (LGM), the Altiplano of Bolivia and Peru and much of the Amazon basin were wetter than today. The LGM in this part of the Andes is dated at 21,000 cal yr B.P., approximately coincident with the global LGM. Maximum aridity and lowest lake level occurred in the early and middle Holocene (8000 to 5500 cal yr B.P.) during a time of low summer insolation. Today, rising levels of Lake Titicaca and wet conditions in Amazonia are correlated with anomalously cold sea-surface temperatures in the northern equatorial Atlantic. Likewise, during the deglacial and Holocene periods, there were several millennial-scale wet phases on the Altiplano and in Amazonia that coincided with anomalously cold periods in the equatorial and high-latitude North Atlantic, such as the Younger Dryas.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Baker, P A -- Seltzer, G O -- Fritz, S C -- Dunbar, R B -- Grove, M J -- Tapia, P M -- Cross, S L -- Rowe, H D -- Broda, J P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jan 26;291(5504):640-3.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Duke University, Division of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Durham, NC 27708, USA. pbaker@geo.duke.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11158674" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Animals ; Atmosphere ; Bolivia ; Diatoms ; *Fresh Water ; *Geologic Sediments ; Peru ; Plankton ; *Rain ; Temperature ; Time ; *Tropical Climate
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    Space science. How to cope with space weather (2002)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2002-08-31
    Description: 〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Baker, Daniel N -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2002 Aug 30;297(5586):1486-7.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, USA. daniel.baker@lasp.colorado.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12202809" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: Earth (Planet) ; *Extraterrestrial Environment ; Humans ; Power Plants ; Solar System ; Space Flight ; Spacecraft
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    Matriarchs as repositories of social knowledge in African elephants (2001)
    American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
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    Publication Date: 2001-04-21
    Description: Despite widespread interest in the evolution of social intelligence, little is known about how wild animals acquire and store information about social companions or whether individuals possessing enhanced social knowledge derive biological fitness benefits. Using playback experiments on African elephants (Loxodonta africana), we demonstrated that the possession of enhanced discriminatory abilities by the oldest individual in a group can influence the social knowledge of the group as a whole. These superior abilities for social discrimination may result in higher per capita reproductive success for female groups led by older individuals. Our findings imply that the removal of older, more experienced individuals, which are often targets for hunters because of their large size, could have serious consequences for endangered populations of advanced social mammals such as elephants and whales.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉McComb, K -- Moss, C -- Durant, S M -- Baker, L -- Sayialel, S -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Apr 20;292(5516):491-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Experimental Psychology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Brighton BN1 9QG, UK. karenm@biols.susx.ac.uk〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11313492" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
    Keywords: *Aging ; Animals ; *Behavior, Animal ; Biological Evolution ; Conservation of Natural Resources ; *Discrimination (Psychology) ; *Elephants/physiology ; Exploratory Behavior ; Female ; Kenya ; Reproduction ; Social Behavior ; *Vocalization, Animal
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